To understand just how dramatically Amazon Web Services is changing the face of enterprise corporate IT, check out some thoughts from Roy Joseph, managing director of technology infrastructure, client platforms and banking technology at Goldman Sachs Group.

Customer Privacy and Data Protection

The company is hyper-sensitive about customer privacy and data protection. Embracing AWS was not an easy sell within Goldman Sachs, Joseph conceded.

Among the key reasons Goldman went with AWS: Bring your own key (BYOK) technology along with real-time data and historical logs to ensure trust management. Also, the west coast Amazon team felt like it was “right in the room with us” at the Goldman headquarters as the financial giant built out key applications on the cloud.